I just tried putting my reels in my View-Master projector, but while the images look quite sharp on a wall, my iPhone ends up with an overcranked image, picking up the light from the bulb. Not that it would help because, although my reels have been kept in their envelope over the decades, the command shirts on mine look quite gold/brown, and photograph almost yellow:
The Omega Glory on View-Master by
Therin of Andor, on Flickr
By the way, don't forget that the stereo photographer had to steal moments during rehearsals to get his shots. Check out Reel 2's image #3,
"Tracy radioed Enterprise bridge", with Sulu and Uhura, and Nichelle Nichols has
the script sitting on her lap.
A guy called Mark Anderson used a
Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi to photograph his reels:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anderspace/2237718690/
On his image of Catwoman, he further explains:
"Viewmaster reels on a piece of 8 1/2 x 11 inch white paper, on top of a glass baking dish. The baking dish was elevated with a couple of boxes, and a Vivitar 283 set to 1/16 power was underneath, pointing up. A DIY PVC light tent was around the whole works, with a Vivitar 285 on full power on the top right. The 283 was fired with an Ebay trigger, the 285 by an optical trigger. Camera was a Canon XTi and Canon 50mm f/1.8 lens and a #2 manual macro tube. The lens was forced down to f/16 before putting it on the macro tube."
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anderspace/2237719146/